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| Author, Analytic (01) | : | Cormack, M. A.//Howells, E. |
| Title, Analytic (04) | : | Factors linked to the prescribing of benzodiazepines by general practice principals and trainees |
| Medium Designator (05) | : | Analytic survey |
| Journal Title (10) | : | Family Practice |
| Date of Publication (20) | : | 1992 |
| Volume ID (22) | : | 3970 |
| Location in Work (25) | : | 466-471 |
| Notes (42) | : | Methodology note: Doctors in this study were not randomly selected. There is the possibility of a social acceptability bias. |
| Abstract (43) | : | Principals and trainees in general practice attending training events were asked to give information about their prescribing of drugs, with a focus on the prescribing of benzodiazepines for psychological problems. High prescribers of benzodiazepines believed that a prescription saved consultation time, tended to be influenced by drug company information and believed that patients expected a prescription. Low prescribers of benzodiazepines did not prescribe for bereavement, wished to have more psychological expertise and offered treatments other than drugs. Doctors classified as empathic from their statements at interview found difficulty in ending consultations and thought that social problems should be part of the general practitioner's work, although there were no differences between empathic and unsympathetic doctors in overall prescribing rates of benzodiazepines. The data suggest that doctors who are emphatic towards their patients would prescribe less if they had training in psychological skills. |
| Keywords (45) | : | *analytic survey/United Kingdom/primary care doctors/physicians in training/source of information/quality of prescribing/psychotropic drugs/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PRESCRIBING, DRUG USE/PROMOTION AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION: DOCTORS |
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